Next week, we're going to do a whole week of commentary, blogging and thinking about Proposition B, the proposal to overhaul the port's planning power and completely change what we think of as the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal -- perhaps the most valuable corner of bay-front land in San Diego.
What do you think about Proposition B? Should we try to combine maritime hard-hat jobs with football stadiums and hotels? Is it even possible to put a deck on top of a cargo terminal and still bring in cargo? Is it the only hope for a new Chargers stadium in San Diego? If you would like to write something up with your thoughts about what should happen to San Diego's bay front and Tenth Avenue send it to me at scott.lewis@voiceofsandiego.org.
I'm particularly looking for people who are against the proposal. The campaign against it is not very impressively organized so far.
Once you start quoting these people, you can't stop. Here's San Diego-area Rep. Brian Bilbray on his reasons for opposing the bailout:
"The American taxpayers are being asked to assume a $700 billion burden to bailout Wall Street with little more than a promise and a congressional report that this is just a one time deal," Rep. Bilbray said. "It is not the responsibility of the American taxpayers to foot the bill or the capital for the irresponsible actions of Wall Street and borrowers. I am not opposed to appropriate government action, but socializing the capital market at the expense of the taxpayer is wrong and saddles future generations with potentially billions of dollars of debt. There is no promise that there will not be more, nor even any real certainty that this Hail Mary proposal will even work."
Leibham, you know, briefly worked for City Attorney Mike Aguirre. Aguirre got a bit of a boost recently from La Prensa, the newspaper that serves the city's Latino and Spanish-language communities. La Prensa endorsed Aguirre.
But what's interesting is what it doesn't do. It doesn't apologize for him. It's a rather proud declaration, in fact, that he has nothing to apologize for.
Even Aguirre, in his first television commercial of the season, begins with a sort of apology: Sure I could've done some things differently. Probably should have.
This is how most arguments for Aguirre go these days: Yeah, he's out of control. He's a loose cannon. He's reckless and he's made serious mistakes. But he's on our side. And his cannon is firing at the right targets.
This implies that the only path to reform is through recklessness so you just have to deal with it.
La Prensa, didn't go there. Keep firing, the paper tells the city attorney.
Probably good political advice. I've never heard of a person winning an election on the platform theme of "I'm sorry."
La Prensa, perhaps the only mainstream news source in San Diego, which truly embraces and represents the cares and concerns of the working class super-majority of our citizenry. As far as I am concerned, this endorsement by La Prensa is the only ‘Latino’ endorsement which carries any real value in the Latino Community. This paper is clearly the only source of political support for the largest single group of ethically identifiable (yet more oppressed and excluded) people in San Diego City and County. That the other groups going around inserting Latino or Chicano into the titles they call themselves, while supporting politicians and policies which have not bettered the life of our Latino Brothers and Sisters, think to continue to give out endorsement is a shame. It is like all those so-called groups calling themselves “Christian” – while they stand idly by and watch those same people suffer.
On 9/19 I wrote to David Washburn that "tact" means diplomacy and "tack" means course or direction, words he seemed to have confused. In your post today, Scott Lewis, surely you meant to say "probably a good political tack."
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The Scott Lewis on Politics blog, abbreviated cleverly as SLOP, is a collection of observations, insights and the occasional scoop on public affairs in San Diego. Please feel free to e-mail Scott at scott.lewis@voiceofsandiego.org.
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